Carter-Aaron tree » Emma Jessie Addis (1895-????)

Birthday June 29, 1895

• The temperature on June 29, 1895 was about 22.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
  • May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
  • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
  • October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
  • October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian († 2005)
• 1890 » Robert Laurent, American sculptor and academic († 1970)
• 1893 » Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer and educator († 1958)
• 1893 » Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician († 1972)
• 1897 » Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist and publisher († 2001)
• 1898 » Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist and educator († 1986)